River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-05-05
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
BROWNS AND TEARS.

Or like your threatning finger. To=e:
And, when the sun went up and down,
Pointed the hour. as yen do now,
With enllen humors on your brow,
For every hour diflerentfrown.
When the set, OF hid hid his light
IT, cloudy days. aud in the night,
They told the time another way,
BY water, which from vessels dropped,
Till they were empted, when il stopped;
And this they called clepsydTG.
You use the same old measure yet,
For eyeTmOre your eyes are wet,
You leaky creature, old and sour,
Whose life is perpetual showerl
Strong should he be, and in his prime,
To whom, wife, You measure time.
How he can tell, with you in sight,
Whether Il be the day ght
Has puzzled me, / own, for years,
Your peeyish tempers change soon;
Your flown, now, poclaims ii noon,
And now tie midnight by your tears,
r. H. SIoDDARD, in narper's Magazine for
May.
ECONOMIC WAY OF RAISING POTATOES.
A most successful way of raising po-
tatoes in the South is by planting them
in what is called lazy bed" which
is done by applying manure very heay-
lily in the rows and then covering the
whole bed with straw. leaves, corn
stalks, or any coarse litter. BY this
plan. no working or wedding is required
and the growth is not stopped by the
first hot, dry weather. as the ground is
kept cool and moist, which greatly in
creases the yield of the potatoes and
makes them OF much Dtttel Quality.
a good plan, by which several OBJ
iects are combined, is to select field
which is 10 be sown to wheat next fall,
and fence in as much as will make a
good-sized feeding lot for cows and
sheep. In this enclosure feed all of the
corn-stalks. The following spring take
the adjoining land for potatoes; plough
well; then lay off three or four rows ut
time on the side furthest from the
cow-pen. Make the burrows deep; drop
the potatoes at good distances apart,
and fill the burrows entirely up with
coarse manure, keeping on in this way
until all are planted. The object in
planting only few rows at a time, to
avoid running the manure wagon over
! the burrows, as this would destroy them.
After the field is all planted, rake with
hay or stalk-rake the stalks from the
cow-pen on the potato plot, so that the
covering will be foot thick after set
! Ting This is all that is needed until
| harvast, when the stalks are raked from
! the potatoes aud thinly spread over the
wheat field, to be plOHghed under. The
potatoes can be gathered without dig
ging, as they will either be on the top
/ of the ground or in loose manure. In
the South. potatoes raised in this way
may be left in the ground all winter
and gathered in perfect condition in the
spring.
The conditions of success with this
method are, to use plenty of manure
and to have the mulch at least foot
thick Nothing is so good for mnlch
as cOrnstaks, and in raising potates in
a garden, the stalks may be piled on the
edge of the patch in gathering, and
may be used for several years.-ADaeri
can AgrSculturist.
TO GROW STRAWBERRIES,
The main points involved in the
! successful culture of this fruit, as rec
ognized by our best cultivators, are as
follows:
l. Prepare the ground by deep
blowing and subsoiling; apply a dress
ing of rotted manure equal TO twenty
cords per acre; spread it over the
ground and mix with the surface soil
by repeated aud thorough disintegra-
ton with a harrow. The best crops
are produced on strong. loamy soils; if
somewhat clayey it will be all the bet
ter, provided it is drained.
,. Give the plants plenty of space.
The rows should not be less than
thirty inches apart. and the plants
about half that distance between each
other in the rows.
g. Remove all runners as they
appear, and keep the surface well pull
verified and clean during summer after
the crop has been gathered in old plan
tations-the same clearly treatment
applying to newly set out plants. If
yocrg ,,lants are wanted, keep por
ton OF the plantation for the pur-
pose.
4. Cover the plants in winter, after
| the freezing weather sets in, with straw,
/ leaves, or other similar material, as
partial protection from injury by
1 frosts.
| 5. Do not disturb the roots by any
process of cultivation from the month
of September until after the crop has
4 been gathered.
| s. Make new plantation every
year. and destroy the old plants after
hey have produced a second crop.
SIGNAL FLAGS FOR FARMERS.
Superintendent of Telegraph Simp-
son, of the Chicago Milwaukee e St.
Paul railway. has issued circular
announcing that the Company, with a
view of protecting the interests of
| those engaged IN the culture of tobacco
and cranberries, have made arrange
ments with the United States signal
service department. through Sergeant
Rhodes. the observer at Milwaukee,
to furnish frost warnings to the COM
pany from May to October l in each
year, for distribution to stations ia the
cranberry and tobacco growing re-
gions. A frost signal consisting of
black flag eight feet square with
white center three feet square has been
adopted, and it will be displayed from
the top of a flag pole, where it will be
| plainly visible from the surrounding
country. The company assumes the
expense of sending those warnings by
telegraph and parties interested in the
growing of the crops are expected to
furnish the flag and display it. Flags
costs 1915. The flags will be dis
played at about twenty-five points on
the following lines: On the valley
division. from Tomah to Centralia: the
| Viroqua branch between Cashton and
Viroqua; Necedah, Lisbon, Mansion,
Camp Douglass and Tunnel city; points
on the Prairie du Chen division and
the Mineral Point divisions west and
south of Milton junction, comprising
the tobacco growing region. The first
warning will enable the cranberry
growers to food their marshes, and
the tobacco growers to build smudges
around their fields to keep the frost
away.
wOMAN's BEST WORK.
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